. walnut creek police shoot and kill a suspect in a domestic violence incident. details on the phone call. >> a police chase in pasadena ends in a crash. we have learned about a bay area connection. >> and a gas leak forces the evacuation of one bay area neighborhood. why pg&e crews are still there. >> some complete bay area

news coverage, starts right now. this is ktvu mornings on 2. >> and good morning. welcome to mornings on 2. i'm brian flores. >> i'm claudine wong. it's thursday, we want to start with breaking news we first reported at 4:30 this morning. the investigation is underway in a deadly police shooting in walnut creek. it happened hours ago and we are on creek side drive near 680 with the circumstances that led up to the shooting. >> reporter: police just wrapped up their latest briefing about 15, 20 minutes ago. we are getting new details, we have learned there are now multiple officers involved in this incident which wound up with an parent domestic violence suspect dead. investigators are still onto scene. the presence of police and sonoma -- contra kosta county

deputies has decreased but we are learning that incident appears to have happened behind that brick fence you can see in the distance there. police say this may have started as a possible domestic violence incident that ended in gun fire. one suspect dead, nobody else hurt we have learned. we have learned the initial call came into 911 from a woman caller shortly before 3:15 this morning. >> we received a 911 call, transferred from the fire department at 3:13 this morning. there was screaming on the line. officers were dispatched and arrived with in minutes. we received a radio transmission at 3:19, the shots had been fired. >> reporter: so far police are not releasing the suspect's name and there is no word on why the officers fired in this case or whether that suspect had a weapon. we have also heard that the district attorney's unit has been called in. we have seen the da's,

investigators in the scene. that is common after an officer involved shooting. police also say there are no suspects outstanding. we are again still waiting for more details about this incident in particular we want to learn more about the male involved in this incident who was apparently shot and killed by walnut creek police and if he threatened the officers or if the officer has to fire to stop him from hurting another person. he with will bring that when we learn them. we are live. ktvu. >> police are trying to find if alcohol was involved in a fatal crash in haywood. a ford mustang broadsided the driver of a nissan last night. the pick up driver, a man in his late 50s died at the scene. a man is recovering after being shot in san jose over

night. police found the victim at about 8:40 last night. he was taken to the hospital and is expected to survive. investigators say the shooting does appear to be gang related. >> new this morning a person was hit by an ambulance and seriously hurt in san jose. it happened around 3:00 this morning. police say the ambulance was driving through a green light when a person wearing dark clothing walked in to the street. also a police chase in pasadena ended in a crash that killed an 11-year-old. authorities were pursuing an suv with when the vehicle hit another suv on christmas night. two people in that second vehicle were killed including the child from the peninsula. three other residents were also in that van and they had serious injuries. investigators are trying to determine if the suspects in the first suv are connected to an earlier gang shooting in

which a stray bullet killed a veteran tech with the los angeles county sheriff's department. >> a team of fire officials will look into an early december crash that sent firefighters to the hospital. the accident happened december 1st. three firefighters investigating a noninjury crash were struck by an out of control car in highway 24. the fire chief wants to review policies and procedures in hopes of preventing anything like that from happening. the district has currently put in new procedures. several new driving laws go into effect starting on january 1st. we are in san jose to tell you about some of them. >> reporter: right now if you get pulled over by police you have to show written proof of insurance but starting on january 1st, you can show that proof by using your smart phone or tablet. >> i have not heard of that but that would be great. then i don't have to worry

about its condition in my car or whatever. i would love to be able to do that, have the picture of my insurance and be able to show that instead. >> reporter: another new law involving control phones makes it legal to send and receive texts with hands free device that are powered by voice operated software. here is another new law, if you are driving a car with a clean air vehicle sticker you will be allowed to use toll lanes like the ones on 680 and 237. >> set up for people to buy them, that's good. >> reporter: here is an interesting law. self driving cars will be allowed on public roads as long as a licensed driver is in the driver's seat. that law was written by a google co founder who touted the car saying it would help transportation issues. there is also support for them saying eventually they could

help people with disabilities and people who are to drunk to drive. later, we will tell you about several more driving law that go into effect on january 1st. reporting live from san jose. ktvu. >> we are less than a week from the fiscal cliff. the united states senate convening right now. we want to show you a live if picture. there it is. that's the senate majority leader. the senators are right now meeting to discuss the economic deadline and coming up at 7:15 we will have more on the fiscal cliff negotiations and how we are closing in on another financial barrier, that debt ceiling. >> let's go to tara filling in for sal. there is another accident in napa. >> we have a two car crash on napa road. that person is trapped inside of the car. chp working to get them out as well as police. we have another incident we want to mention. 880 northbound at 92 split. a solo spin out.

it's close to traffic so they are running a break. here is a look at maps where 680 southbound, actually we will go to 101 in san francisco. you can see we have traffic flowing nicely in both directions. finally a look at maze. you can see traffic also flowing very well there on the far right hand side of the screen. let's check in with mark. >> good morning to you. we are taking a live look outside. you can see in the south bay and san jose cloud cover to deal with. the key headline, we get a break-in the rain. no rainfall expected in the bay area. you can see even the sierra gets a break and all i can find is a few spotty showers, very light. as far as current temperatures, just updated for the 7:00 hour it has cooled off one degree in fairfield down at 39 at last check. oakland in the mid40s. sfo at 50 and san jose right about 43. here is the forecast for today. more cloud cover this morning,

temperatures in the upper 30s to the upper 40s. then in the afternoon partly cloudy, we will strip away the clouds, those readings in the low to mid50s. we have another weather system off shore that could produce a few showers. especially by friday evening. for today we just have the big batch of cloud cover moving in and that will be the source of some of the overcast. it does slowly thin out into the afternoon. here is a look at numbers, san francisco 53, fairfield 51, brentwood about 51, san jose maxes out about 54 and san mateo53, here is a look ahead. the five-day with the weekend always in view, rapidly approaching and we do bring in the chance of a few showers by friday. a slight chance during the day but a better bet late friday afternoon in to the evening. showers could linger into saturday morning, especially until eight or nine and then dry weather for sunday that will take us into new year's

with just a few extra clouds. in a few we will look at the lake tahoe forecast. >> okay. we will see you then. a portion of the great highway is still closed this morning because of flooding. yesterday's heavy rain left pools of water on the road closing parts of the southbound lanes. there is no estimated time for when the road will reopen. emergency repairs seem to be holding up to a levee. sandbags were stacked after levees failed on sunday. they were inspected yesterday, crews say it's still working. seven homes were damaged by the flooding. long term repairs are set to begin next year. the storms in the bay area have been good for the water supply and for the snow pack in the sierra. state water officials say the water content is 146% of normal for this time of year. the snow pack provides a third of the water supply for homes, farms and industries in california. >> a man is arrested for dousing a woman with alcohol and setting her on fire at a

bus stop. the shocking details a witness shared with investigators overnight. >> snow, freezing rain and strong winds. how hundreds of flights are affected by the northeast storms.

. good thursday morning. we are looking outside. we get a break in the rainfall for today. cloud cover in the short term. sykes partly cloudy this afternoon. >> welcome back. right now the president is on air force one going back to washington. he shook hands before leaving his vacation in hawaii. he has important talks scheduled to avert the fiscal cliff. as we showed you, the senate is back in session. they are hoping to strike a deal and avoid the fiscal cliff. we are in washington where some republicans are pessimistic an agreement can be reached. >> reporter: the senate majority leader is on the floor right now. we will take a live look at the

capitol. he is trying to get republican support for the latest democratic plan. they got back to work about 15 minutes ago and are considering the president's offer to raise taxes on households making $400,000 or more a year. even if it passes the senate he is concerned about the house where he will need about 30 republicans to cross party lines. the house speaker said he is not making members of the house come back from their break without a 48 hour notice on a vote. in the last -- >> american people i don't think understand the house is operating without the house of house. its being operated with a dictatorship of the speaker. >> reporter: on top of this the treasurey department said the united states will hit its debt ceiling on monday and unless it takes extraordinary measures the country could default on some of its payments. we are expecting to hear more

from senate leaders today we will have more in the next update. >> thank you. the east coast is being pounded with more powerful storms and that's causing problems at airports across the criminal airlines have canceled hundreds of flights because of the storm. heavy snow has been falling in pennsylvania, upstate new york and some new england states. thousands are now stranded at airports across the country. >> you can't change it so you take it for what it is and make the best of a bad situation. >> in the bay area dozens of flights to the east coast were also grounded. bay area airports have also had days of delays because of rain here and with more rain expected on friday the local flight delays could continue through new year's. >> a hospital is set to reopen today after it was forced to close because of sandy. 300 had to be evacuated from the medical center at the time of the storm. the hospital received $150 million in federal aid.

some outpatient services have already been back in operation since last month. and a vigil was held for two new york firefighters shot to death on monday night. dozens of people turned out in the community of webster new york. they braved frigid temperatures to take part in the memorial. the suspect set his house on fire and then started shooting at random before killing himself. two others were hurt and are still in the hospital. former president george hw bush is in guarded condition at the hospital this morning in houston. a family spokesman said the 88- year-old is a alert, he is talking with medical staff and he is surrounded by his family. he was moved to the intensive care unit on sun and has been in the hospital since late last month. >> it'll put you in the icu because things are going well. we are hoping that the medicines and treatments can help him turn it around. >> he has a high fever and is

now on a liquids only diet. his wife and his sons have all been frequent visitors at the hospital. >> in overnight news a southern california woman is in the hospital after police say a man set her on fire. a witness said that a man walked into a store, bought alcohol, put it on the woman who was sleeping on a bus bench, lit a match and then ran. the witness chased him and called the police. the suspect was arrested. he could face murder charges if the woman doesn't survive. a petition against a controversial kansas church is growing. more than 250,000 have signed a petition asking the white house to legally recognize the church as a hate group. the church is known for protesting at military funerals. they claim united states military deaths god's punishment for tolerating gays. >> russian president said he will sign a bill banning americans from adopting russian

children. the government approved the proposed ban in response to a law calling for sanctions against russians who have violated human rights. more information now on the release of 1200 secret files disclosing sexual abuse in the boy scouts. the times published the database of the alleged abusers online after a judge ordered them handed over. we talked to one of the victims josh solomon and he brought his boy scout uniform he wore when he was 12. he said the scout master for his group molested him during camping trips in 82 and 83. >> 30s, veteran, nobody wants to admit they were powerless to stop something like this from happening. >> his abuser served time in

prison on molestation charges. we contacted the boy scouts, they apologized to the victims and families saying its response to certainly cases were insufficient, inappropriate or wrong. >> we are kind of getting a break from the rain but you may want to keep umbrella handy. >> and stanford fans counting down the days until the rose bowl. >> here is a look at the bay bridge toll plaza. no traffic but a couple of hot spots with you coming up.

. a special light show in thailand will help bring in the new year. people are viewing huge light displays at the 7th yearly lantern festival. the theme is colors of the south with lanterns from the cultures. thousands of people are expected to visit the display. the exhibit will be open until april 30th. more than school spirit is

on the line when stanford and the university of wisconsin meet in the rose bowl on tuesday. the mayor has a bet with the mayor of madison wisconsin and the losing mayor has to wear a hat from the winning team at a city council meeting and display the winner's flag for a day next movement the loser must also plant a tree in the winner's town. the last time they met was in 2000 when wisconsin won. >> that was bad. the 49ers have nine probowl picks this year. offensive players include gore, staley and patrick willis, alden smith, justin smith. eight others were selected as alternates. the raiders were shut out. nah. the spartans will face bowling green in the military bowl today. san jose if they won would have their first 11 win season since

1940. kickoff is at noon our time. >> let's go out to tara who is watching san francisco for us right now. >> reporter: the great highway is shut down between lincoln and sloat. the wind always blows up the sand. we have had flooding issues over the past couple weeks. right now this is a look at golden gate bridge. you can see traffic is flowing nicely and along the east shore freeway. southbound or westbound traffic on the left hand side of the screen as you make your way to the toll plaza where we have no delays and 237, you can see traffic moving nicely in both directions. let's check in with mark. >> good morning. we are starting out the day dry. no rain in the forecast for today. just a big batch of high clouds covering most of the area as you can see in parts of the south bay. showing you some of the overcast. with the cloud deck, temperatures not so cold. still in the who's.

forecast headlines we have this. for today morning clouds, skies getting partly cloudy, clouds on the increase. we have a shower chance for friday into saturday morning. most of your weekend a sun cloud mix and temperatures on the cool side. remember yesterday we were tracking a lot of rain, at least rapidly moving rain showers across the bay area. not the case for today. look at some of the cool numbers, under mostly cloudy skies, upper 30s to the upper 40s to around 50 at sfo. mountain view in at 45. the lake tahoe forecast, they get a break as well for today more cloud cover. snow could return, back for today -- temperatures will be back up in to the low to mid50s, oakland. and livermore. your five-day forecast with your weekend always in view. there is that rain cloud. the chance of a few showers for friday. especially by friday night.

that's when the highest chance moves in, friday night into saturday morning. the rest of the weekend should be dry. >> sounds good. business owners in east oklahoma land are frustrated after being targeted by vandals. >> and repair work continues here in brentwood as crews try to fix a broken gas line that forced people from their homes overnight. the scary moments for evacuees. >> and violence inside a sacramento mall that made shoppers ditch the day after christmas sales and run to safety.

. happening now, pg&e crews have found the source of a gas leaka affecting a brentwood neighborhood. alex savage is live where crews have been working all night. >> reporter: good morning. i just talked to one of the people evacuated because of the gas leak in that neighborhood. she said it was nervewracking when firefighters came knocking on the door of her home. this home and the others next to it remain evacuated. the order is still in place but the good news is workers have controlled the gas flow and are running a bypass to keep gas

service on in this neighborhood. crews repairing a broken two inch underground gas line. overnight crews dug up quite a bit of sidewalk trying to figure where the gas was leaking from. this situation gana round 6:00. that's when neighbors reported the smell of gas in this area. people here were ordered to stay inside their homes. one woman who was evacuated said she was anxious when firefighterred ordered her to leave last night. >> the first thing was that the san bruno thing and stuff. i -- then once i knew there was only like three houses that were vacanted our -- i knew it wasn't that bad but still, you know, i had to be one that was evacuated. >> reporter: she said she went to stay with her mom who lives nearby. she is hoping to get back home soon but won't be able to until this broken line can be repaired. pg&e did say early this morning

that the work may not be finished until this afternoon. we have a call in at that point to a pg&e spokesperson. we haven't heard back with you are hoping to get the update on when the evacuation order will be lifted. we are live in brentwood. ktvu channel 2news. >> and we are learning more about the breaking news on a deadly police shooting in walnut creek. we have been told that several officers were involved in that shooting. it started with a domestic disturbance call to 911. police are not releasing the name of the suspect or why officers opened fire. as protocol the da is now investigating the incident. in the next half hour we will get a live report from the scene. vandals targeting an area of east oakland drawing complaints. early yesterday morning suspected vandals smashed windows of a hair salon. they also smashed windows of a

nearby empty store front and a parked van. the area has been the center of crimes and now business owners are writing city leaders to ask for more police protection. >> bail at two million dollars for a woman accused in a fatal hit and run crash. the 23-year-old made her first court appearance yesterday. she is expected to enter a plea next week. she was drunk when she hit a group of people walk agriculture long a road near twin peaks. >> 56-year-old was knocked down a hillside and killed. >> this case is a case that will be handled very aggressively. >> the entire family is destroyed by what happened. i think it's fair to say that their man concern is for the family. >> the lawyer said her client has never been in trouble with the law and was studying criminal justice to be a police officer. more people drove drunk over the holiday this this

year. 1, 170 people were arrested for dui's, that's compared to 980 last year. 39 people died compared to 14 from the same time last year. police did a series of checkpoints in hopes of curbing drunk driving during the holidays. >> san francisco police are look for more potential victims of three shoplifts suspects. take a look, on december 20th the three went into two stores on california street near laurel heights. investigators say the women put items in their bags and then they walked out. those three are under arrest on suspicious of shoplifting but police are looking for more information on them. police also investigating the damage of several vallejo high school buildings. it happened late tuesday night or early wednesday morning. a campus security guard found a broken junction box on a portable classroom. the wires wires were also stripped. since the buildings were damaged, the dollar amount of

the damage is not yet known. >> a santa cruz county man decide while hiking a voo lcano. douglas kirby apparently had a heart attack and died. the popular volcano has a elevation of nearly 5,000 over 5,000 feet movement some explosives caused quite a square in a west oakland neighborhood. the county sheriff's bomb squad was called tout to a home on 37th and market street. a man told authorities he wanted to turn in old tnt from world war ii. police closed off a portion of the area and evacuated residents. five and a half pounds was recovered. septemberors say that amount could cause a lot of damage. >> officials from connecticut are asking well wishers to hold off on gifts. since the shooting tens of

thousands of toys, and other gifts have been going in to the community from all over the world. officials say that they are deeply grateful but they can't manage so many items. they say once they process all of the gifts they are going to let the public know the best way to help those affected by the shooting. in response to the connecticut school shooting a guns for groceries exchange program in los angeles was held earlier than planned. it created long lines of people and cars waiting to turn in their guns to officials yesterday. the event was first scheduled for may. in return for those guns the people received a 100-dollar gift certificate to ralp h's. more than 2,000 guns were collected. in new york city a newspaper is drawing criticism for publishing the names and addresses of gun permit holders. they published a database showing the names and

addresses. the state senator is demanding the paper take it down but they have drawn support also with some parents expressing appreciation for the useful information. >> new information on the fiscal cliff talks in washington. united states senate convened about an hour ago. this is a live picture of oregon democratic senator ron wyden on the floor discussing the deadline. we have learned that the president called the democratic majority lead, minority leader and house speaker and senate minority leader. now coming up at 8:15 the fiscal cliff negotiations and the effort to prevent one of the largest tax increases and budget cuts in united states history. >> we are still watching the accident in napa. >> we have a lot of traffic around fifth street near downtown. the westbound lane blocked due to a two car crash. a woman was trapped inside of

her car. we will take a look at the bay bridge. you can see traffic flowing nicely. 880 near the oakland coliseum we have traffic gluing well in both directions. no delays to report. in the south bay 280 at 880 split those headlines northbound traffic toward santa claire a. >> hi. we are -- taking a live look outside. showing you cloud coast mostly cloudy skies over most of the area. key headline, it's dry, we have a break in the rain for today. its been an active weather pattern over the past one to two weeks. we will look at where we stand with rain, since july 1st when the rainfall calendar starts. santa rosa over 22-inches, san jose at 7 inches, look at santa rosa. 174% of average and by tomorrow we could be tracking just a few more rain shower, nothing major but still we could track a few

rain drops for friday. right now mostly cloudy, fairfield 39 degrees, oakland mid40s and san jose currently in about 43 degrees. forecast for today is this. more cloud cover this morning, upper 30s, upper 40s and in to the afternoon sykes partly cloudy. here is the overall weather pattern. a big batch of high clouds but no rain associated with that. we will be dry for today. there is a weather system developing off shore. that will be the source of more cloud cover for friday. we re-enter deuce the chance of showers by friday evening lasting into saturday morning. the early morning hours of saturday. here is the updated forecast model. this came in about half an our ago, 45 minutes, lue see more cloud cover for friday. rainfall still off shore, 10:00 tomorrow morning. spotty drizzle by this time frame. then late in the afternoon in to the evening the rain bands

can be moving on shore. this is not a major deal but still enough to warrant at least keep the umbrella nearby for friday nights and lasting into saturday morning. then by saturday afternoon the rain clouds move out leaving us with partly cloudy skies, for today temperatures mainly in the low to mid50s. the clouds becoming partly cloudy in to the afternoon. san jose 54, san mateo53 and the look ahead the five-day with the weekend always in view. chance of showers for friday. a better bet friday night into early saturday morning. sunday just patchy morning fog and more cloud cover into monday wrapping up 2012. >> a large brawl temporarily shut down a sacramento mall and sent shoppers running for the door. what shoppers saw and heard when that fight broke out. >> reporter: a wave of panic across the mall as shoppers ran from the chaos that started at the food court. >> terrifying.

it was scariest moment. >> reporter: police say it started a fight got out of control drawing in at least 20 juveniles. >> all the groups jumped in and they all started fighting. >> reporter: even after police and security jumped in some of the teens kept fighting. >> the police caught maybe three of them and then they all came here and did it a second time. >> reporter: that's when several people inside the mall heard what they thought were gun shots. >> we all heard it because we were -- everybody was coming to seat second fight. . >> reporter: not everybody. >> something similar to gun shots. we don't know if it was gun shots but it sound like shots. >> reporter: police say they have ruled out any gun fire. they believe the sounds of large signs falling over may have led people to report shots fired. >> you start thinking the worst thing that can possibly happen like i just imagine someone with -- with a gun or just -- someone coming to the store and threatening us.

>> we hid behind the jewelry counter at macy's and then i was like we need to get out of here. i'm not about to get so. >> i called my mom and just wanted to talk to her. >> reporter: even after it was over and the mall reopened it was hard for many to catch their breath. >> just never know what could happen. >> caught on camera video of a fierce tornado that hit an alabama walgreens store. and a new controversy involving facebook and privacy and this hits close to home for the family.

. and the markets headed in a down direction. that's a look at the big board down 86 points, people not feeling good about the fiscal cliff. senate majority leader this morning said it looks like that is where we are headed, certainly investors don't like to hear that. the white house has said that the president has made separate calls to congressional leaders as he heads back to dc to try to deal with the deadline. this morning the labor department reported a better than expected report on the number of jobless claims, 350,000 people filed for first time unemployment benefits last week. that's down 12,000 from the week before. most economists expect that to hold steady from the week before but they warn that decline may be blown up because government offices were closed monday and tuesday. and more sign that the economy is improving. the commerce department said sales of new homes rose 4.4% in november. americans bought new homes at the fastest pace in more than two and a half years.

they said demand was up more than 15% from a year ago. consumer confidence has fallen because people are so worried about that fiscal cliff. the index has hit the lowest level since august. the concern is over tax increases and government spending cuts set to take effect january 1st if the white house and congress can't reach a deal. >> toyota is forecasting sales of nearly ten million vehicles next year and it's expected to reclaim the title of world's largest automaker. the company is on pace to sell 9.7 million this year which would put it ahead of gm. it would also be up 22% from last year when it was unable to meet demand arch its factories and suppliers were hurt by the quake, tsunami and natural disasters. and toyota will reportedly play $1.1 billion to settle lawsuits over car that accelerated unexpectedly. toyota recalled 14 million

vehicles around the world. the settlement still needs a judge's approval and toyota faces lawsuits over injuries and deaths the problem. wells fargo doesn't have to pay $203 million to customers after a united states appeals court overturned a decision. the first ruling was ordered at the san francisco based bank changed the order of debit card purchase postings. a customer sued after they started posting the biggest purchases first, that could force customers to pay overdraft fees on smaller buys. >> amazon is a stock to watch it looks like that stock is down just under 1%. stock fell almost 4% yesterday. the wireless service is being blamed for the outage of netflix on christmas day. they still can't explain what happened. they are earning high marks

from online shoppers in a new survey. it's the site online shoppers said they are most satisfied with. they have held the top spot for all eight years of the surrender visit part of the reason is the wide variety. across the country retailers say overall sales have been disappointing. stores are still hoping after christmas sales will help bring in more customers. deep discounts and gift cards are just a couple reasons shoppers may decide its time to start spending on themselves now. one man's business was slow until the final days before christmas. >> we did have good traffic. at the end of the day it didn't add up to that much. they were kind of looking and -- we were puzzled. >> many shoppers lot of the holiday spirit after hurricane sandy and the shooting at sandy hook. >> claim of aphis back breach involving the founder's sister.

she said she posted a family photograph for her friends on facebook but a woman she said doesn't know -- saw it and posted on twitter thinking was a public photograph. she lashed out at the woman and the woman apologized saying she thought it was public because it was in her news feed. it turns out the woman saw it because she is friends with another sister tagged in the photograph. the yacht belonging to steve job is now free to sail. it was impounded, the owner has now reached a settlement. >> former south african president is resting this morning. he was release from the hospital yesterday but doctors still keeping a close eye on him. the 94-year-old spent three weeks in the hospital. he was being treated for air lung infection. hawaii has two united states senators again.

the governor picked brian chaps to fill out the term of the late senator. he is a democrat and had been the lieutenant governor. he was one of three candidates considered for the job. the senator died earlier this month. he had served since 1959. >> we are getting a look at one of the 34 twister that swept through the south. this is surveillance video from mobile alabama on tuesday showing the fury of one tornado. you can seat cars being thrown around outside this walgreens. inside the store people ran for cover while the winds knocked down shelves. hundreds of thousands of people in the south are still without power. freezing temperatures and thunderstorms are complicating efforts as well to restore pure. >> a nuclear facility in southeastern california must pass more evaluations before it can return online. the plant shut down nearly a year ago due to excessive wear

on tubes. a commission is now asking operators for more analysis of whether those tubes can handle full power. they want to onesavanh unit at reduced power. a group said its pleas that government regulators are asking the hard questions. >> it was targeted by arsonists. how a park is now being returned to its former glory. >> and a stunning find involving sea otters. uú6

. welcome back, a postal worker accused of stealing mail to get credit cards has a court hearing scheduled for today. the 30-year-old faces a review conference today . they recovered more than 3,000 pieces of mail earlier this month. prosecutors say they have surveillance video of him using a stolen credit card at a

target store. he remains in jail on a 150,000- dollar bail. >> arraignment scheduled at nine for an occupy protester accused of throwing objects at police and demonstrators. from the rooftop of a building the 34-year-old was videotaped throwing bricks, and metal pipes during a may day protest. he faces charges including assault with a deadly weapon and vandalism. bail has been set at half a million dollars. occupiers say he should be punished. there is new hope for the park in antioch. it'll be restored. two teens targeted the park in september. several people are helping race funds to rebuild it. today pg&e is going to present a matching grant of 12, 5hundred dollars for incentives to get donors to contribute to the goal. so far eight thousand has been raised. >> a professor said otters

eat sea urchins that eat kelp, that means more kelp, that catches more carbon dioxide and that slows global warming. a group is trying to toughen up a bobcat kitten. they are now making her hunt for food and hang with male bobcats who tend to his and claw. the point is to make her more wild to be released. today in san francisco more than 100 volunteers will be taking to the streets recording every bird that they spot. its part of the bird count. it they will use canoes to cover as much area as possible. the data is important. they are using to impact climate change. the first part took place on

december 16th. >> the san francisco public library doesn't want library goers to worry about possible bed bugs in their books. officials say several concerned people have contacted them, worried about books having them. the new york times report that pests have been found in libraries around the country but the san francisco system said it's never had a bed bug infeastings and there are plans in place to handle it if it happened. >> coming up, let's go to tara. >> we have defective traffic signals on 280 southbound. be aware of it. let's take a look at 101. you can see the sun just starting to come out. traffic flowing on the right hand side. over in lafayette highway 24, headed toward arinda. finally san mateo bridge, traffic looking great in both

directions. >> good morning. we do get a break-in the rain for today and the clouds. we have been talking about them. they are starting to thin out. shaping up to be a nice thursday. you can see the south bay. haze in san jose on track to reach the 50s. the mid50s this afternoon. here is the satellite and radar. you will notice not much on the radar. the rain source up to the north. we just have partly to mostly cloudy skies, as i said clouds starting to lift. the numbers ranging from chilly 39 in fairfield out to 51 in half moon bay. 51 oakland, mid40s around 45. forecast for this afternoon. skies becoming partly cloudy, temperatures ranging from the low to mid50s around 50 to 55 degrees. here is a look ahead. the five-day forecast. break in the rain for today. things change for tomorrow. another weather system off shore. that will increase our rain chances again. not a major deal but we could

track rain source especially by friday evening. lasting into saturday morning, especially up until about eight or nine. the rest of the weekend should be dry with partly cloudy skies. >> looking forward to the weekend. thank you. police chase in pasadena ends in a deadly crash. we have learned about a bay area connection as well. >> crime scene investigators here at the scene of this officer involved shooting. new details for you. . >> new driving laws go into effect in california. what you need to know. it's time to change the way we clean.

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. this is ktvu mornings on it 2. >> it's thursday, december 27th. throughout this morning we are finding new details about a deadly police shooting in walnut creek. it happened a few hours ago off interstate 680. we have been reporting from the scene since early this morning since 4:30. >> reporter: we are here on creek side drive and let's go head and give you a look. we can show you just a couple minutes ago with in the last three minutes we saw a large group of investigators gathering there at the entrance this apartment complex and

going into the area. this is an officer involved shooting. multiple officers were involved in that shooting which left one suspect dead. now it may be hard to see. the shooting happened to the left of that fence area in a parking lot area. we will show you video. police confirmed this all may have started as a domestic incident that ended in gun fire and one suspect dead. >> there was an officer involved shooting. all the officers are okay. there is one suspect deceased. there is nobody outstanding. we are not looking for anybody. >> reporter: now at this time walnut creek police are not releasing the suspect's name and there is no word on why the officer's involved fired on that suspect or whether the suspect had a weapon, police say again this started a 911 phone call. they heard a woman screaming on the phone at about 3:13 this morning. six minutes later officers were on the scene and started firing

at that suspect. again that suspect killed in that exchange. chopper 2 was overhead earlier this morning and i told you about that view. you can seat area we are talking about. it's in that parking lot area and the incident is believed to have happened -- we believe it happened on the back of that parking lot area. chopper 2 giving us the view in that the apartment complex where it happened. no word on how long the investigation will be underway. we also in the last ten minutes here saw a crime scene investigation van move in to the area and move into the parking lot area. we have heard that da's unit has been called in and that's common in officer involved shootings. police again say no suspects outstanding at this point in time. we are still waiting on a few details. looking to learn more about the suspect in this case. who he was and whether he had a weapon at the time. these are questions we are

still hoping to ask to police. we will continue asking these questions and bring you updates throughout the morning. for now live in walnut creek. >> in overnight news police are investigating a fatal crash. they say a ford mustang broadsided a nissan around 9:30. the mustang hit the pick up driver side door killing the driver who was a man in his late 50s. the two in the mustang weren't hurt. a man is recovering after being shot in san jose overnight. police found the victim at about 8:40 last night. he was taken to the hospital and is expected to survive. investigators say the shooting appears to be gang related and no arrests have been made. >> a person was hit by an ambulance and hurt in san jose. it happened around 3:00. police say the ambulance was driving through a green light

when a person wearing dark clothing walked into the street. the pedestrian was rushed to the hospital but we don't know her condition at this hour. also new, a police chase in pasadena ended in a crash that killed an 11-year-old. authorities were pursuing an suv when that vehicle hit another suv on christmas night. two in the second vehicle were killed including the child from the peninsula. three others had serious injuries. investigators are trying to determine if the suspects in the first sur are connected to an earlier gang shooting in which a stray bullet killed a veteran tech with the los angeles county sheriff's department. >> policies could change following a cash earlier this month though sent firefighters to the hospital. it happened on december 1st. three firefighters were investigating a mop injury crash and were hit by an out of control car. the fire chief wants to review poll suspicion procedures in the hopes of prevent that from happening again. the district has already put in

some new procedures. with the new year will come new laws and some of them will affect california can drivers. we are live in san jose with more on the driving laws that start on january 1st. >> reporter: right now you can't text and drive but starting on january 1st you can drive and legally send and receive a text message if you are using a hands free device operated by your voice. you can do that by using a blue tooth. now another law that goes into effect involves partly buses and limo drivers. they will be held responsible for telling all underage passenger that drinking alcohol is illegal and if alcohol is being transported with underaged passengers a person who is at least 25 must be on board to make sure they don't drink. that law was in response to accidents involving young adults drinking on party buses. most recent involved a 25-year- old who was killed on highway

17 when she fell out of a party bus when there was drinking involved. >> people will always be irresponsible and stuff. i mean i -- if they get the opportunity. the more they have looking out after them the better. >> reporter: another new law will affect people who drive cars that have clean vehicle stickers. they will now be able to drive in the carpool lanes like the ones on 680 and 237 and something new driver also soon see on the electronic road signs are silver alert notification that are similar to amber alerts. this puts out information about people who have 65 or older who have missing and in danger. reporting live. the united states senate convened about an hour ago. we showed you a democrat speaking on the senate floor this is a live picture where he

is still discussing the economic deadline. we have learn that the president late last night personally called congressional leaders, coming up we will have a live report on the negotiations and effort to prevent one of the largest tax increases and budget cuts. >> the great highway is still drying out after the most recent round of wet weather. yesterday's heavy rain left pools of water on the roadway and they had to shut down parts of the southbound lanes. we had calls into the department of public works and we are still waiting to hear backw. are trying to find when that road is going to reopen. emergency repairs to a levee seem to be holding up. sandbags were stacked after levees failed. crews say it's still working. seven homes were damaged. long term repairs are set to start next year.

the resent storms have been good for the water supply and fort snow pack. state water officials say the water content of the snow pack is 146% of normal for this time of the year. the snow pack provides a third of the water supply for homes, farms and industries in california. >> let's go to tara following traffic along the bay area . >> there is an accident at highway 35 or -- is this is known as skyline boulevard. we have an overturned car. one lane is blocked. we will -- take a live look at highway 4 through the bay point pittsburgh area. you can see traffic is moving nicely in both directions. at the maze we also have traffic speeding right along. there are no delays at the bay bridge toll plaza. and in the south bay 237 you can see traffic on the far right hand received the screen. those are people headed

westbound. here is mark. >> good morning. with all the rainfall we certainly appreciate the dry days and that's what we have for today. all morning we have been talking about overcast but already the clouds starting to lift as well and that trend will continue into the afternoon. in fact here is the satellite perspective. you will see the clouds on the di crease especially for the northern half. current numbers for 8:00 just updated. you can see pretty chilly in the upper 30s. napa, fairfield, 37 to 39 degrees. santa rosa at 43. for today this morning partly to mostly cloudy skies in to the afternoon. looking okay with partly cloudy conditions, temperatures warming back up into the low to mid50s. here is the overall weather pattern today. we have a break-in the rain with the yesterday's storm moving way out to the east. the dry weather pattern for today for thursday and for friday there is another weather system off shore. this will be the source of more cloud cover and we do introduce

a good wouldn't of more showers, this kicks in by late friday afternoon into friday night with the shower chances on the increase. not a major deal but still something to watch for friday night and into saturday morning. we will hold onto that chance as early as friday afternoon. forecast highs for today mainly in the low to mid50s. brentwood at 51, pleasanton 52, san jose 54. here is a look ahead. the five-day forecast and there is that chance of a few scattered rain source, especially after 3:00 tomorrow. that chance lingers in to saturday. mostly just for the morning hours, most of the weekend should be dry as we do approach new year's. should be dry as well. just a few extra clouds and temperatures mainly in the mid to upper 50s. >> more than school spirit is on the line when stanford and the university of wisconsin meet on tuesday. palo alto's mayor has a bet with the mayor of wisconsin. the losing mayor has to wear the hat of the winning team at

a city council meeting show the winner's flag for a day. the loser must plant a tree in the winner's town. the last time they met in the rose bowl was 2000 when wisconsin won. >> the niners have nine probowl picks this year including frank gore and joe staley, on the defense patrick willis, six years in the nfl, six selections,. eight others were also named as alternates. san jose state is hours playing in a big bowl game. the spartans will face bowling green in the military bowl. the teams have had five weeks to get ready for this game and if san jose state win itself will have it's first 11 win season since 1940. >> can't wait to see that one. air force one is about to land after an overnight trip from

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rethink possible. . good thursday morning, we are starting out the day dry. we will -- start out with a few clouds, sykes partly cloudy in to the afternoon. temperatures warming back up in to the 50s. >> one half of congress is back at work this morning while the other remains on holiday

break. the senate returned to washington today but many house members still back in their districts. not much progress is being made in the negotiations. >> reporter: the senate majority leader gave the house speaker a tongue lashing this morning. said that the speaker is running the house like a dictator and that's yacht country is going over the cliff. all this on top of a warning from the treasurey secretary. he said without taking measures the united states will hit its debt ceiling on monday and the country could default on payments. the president and speaker were trying to address the problem in their negotiations which stalled late last week. then congress left for christmas. senators got back this morning. the president is a lifing in washington any minute and house members have yet to return. >> we are here in washington working while the members of the house of representatives are out watching movies.

>> as for the speaker he is holding a conference call with republicans in a few hours and we expect to hear from him later today. >> thank you. the former president george hw bush is in guarded condition at a houston hospital. a family spokesperson said the 88-year-old is a alert, talking to medical staff and surrounded by his family. he was moved to the intensive care unit on sunday. he has been in the hospital since late last month. >> he just started to have a few low energy days and things kind of snowball from there. >> he has a high fever and is now on a liquids only diet. his wife and sons have all been frequent visitors. >> the east coast is being hit with more powerful storms.

airlines have cancelled hundreds of flights because of the storm, heavy snow has been falling in pennsylvania. upstate new york. thousands of holiday travelers stranded across the country. >> you can't change it so you take it for what it is. make the best of a bad situation. >> in the bay area dozens of flights to the east coast were grounded. airports have had delays because of the rain here and there is more rain expected in the bay area on friday so the local flight delays could continue through the new year. >> a new york city hospital set to officially reopen today two months after it was forced to close down because of sandy. 300 patient has to be evacuated from nyu at the time of the storm. the hospital received $150 million in federal aid and repairs. some outpatient services have already been back in operation since about last month. a vigil was held last night for the two firefighters shot to death on monday.

dozens turned out in the community of webster new york. they braved frigid temperatures to take part in the memorial. . two other firefighters were also hurt >> a woman is in the hospital after a man set her on fire. a witness said that the man walked into a store, bought alcohol, put it on her, lit a match and then ran away. a witness chased after him and called the police. the suspect was arrested and he could face murder charges if the woman dies. a petition against the a controversial kansas church is growing. the petition askings the white house to legally recognize them as a hate group this are known for protesting at military

funerals. >> russian president said he will sign a bill banning americans from adopting russian children. the government approved the proposed ban in response to a united states law calling for sanctions against russians found to have violated human rights. the bill has angered russians and americans who say it makes victim of childrens to make a political point. more information on the release of 1200 secret files disclosing sexual abuse in the boy scouts. the times published it online after the judge ordered the scouts to hand over the documents. we talked to one of the victims, josh solomon and when he came to talk to us he brought the boy scout uniform he wore when he was 12. he said the scout master molested him during camping trips in 1982 and 83. >> he had a lot of things that you would look up to when you

are like a young boy. it's a terrible feeling but i mean -- i wouldn't say -- it's not really a shame thing, more like embarrassment. >> the man served eight years for molestation charges. the files date back to 1947. we contacted the boy scouts. they said its response to certain cases were insufficient, inappropriate or wrong. >> a justice refused to block part of the federal health care law that requires morning after beneficiary control. the justice rejected a claim for a waiver by a oklahoma company. that business said the mandate vie lits it's ownoer's religious beliefs. they have to decide if they will go against the beliefs or face fines of more than a million dollars a day starting next tuesday. she said the challenge can be heard in a lower court. >> we are following big news from big sur.

what's happening now on highway one on the rugged monterey coast. . >> and finally getting a break from the rain. you may want to keep that umbrella handy over the next few days. . >> here is a look at the toll plaza. we have information to tell you about the tahoe area.

. welcome back. happening now, the president is back in the washington dc area. here is a live look. take a live look at air force one touching down. the president cut his vacation short in order to meet with republican lawmakers today in order to work on a solution for avoiding the fiscal cliff. that cliff is january 1st when automatic tax increases and deep spending cuts will take effect. the president arriving there, live pictures of air force one touching down. and fears of a big eruption has forced some 300 families to flee their homes. authorities orderod vacant use after the volcano started spewing hot gas. >> traffic is partly open right now on highway one near big sur. a rock slide closed it down on sunday and cal trans has been rushing to make repairs. crews have one lane briefly open right now. they do that to let traffic

through and then have to close it back down. another round of openings is scheduled for noon and then four. there is no word yet on when the roadway will reopen. a water main break prompted city officials to turn off water service to nearly 400 homes. it happened early yesterday morning causing waist deep flooding in several areas. the water main break also created a sink hole that trapped a city bus. the driver escaped unhurt. o accept side officials say water service was restored last night. >> paying for parking in san francisco is a breeze compared to price prices in chicago. meter also be charging $6.50 an hour. that's up from $5.75 an hour. >> if you are headed up to tahoe or thinking about it we have information about the roadways. >> that's right. a viewer said that traffic is pretty bad in the tahoe area.

chains aren't required on i-80 but the roads are icely in spots and slick. chains are required on all other mountainous roads. bring them. right now we have a look at highway 24 through lafayette. sun is out and shining. traffic on the right hand side, no problem. and at the bay bridge you can see that traffic is flowing nicely into and of on the other side into oakland. finally 280 at 880 split, northbound traffic toward santa clara on the bottom portion of the screen moving well. i was wonder figure the sun would come out. >> it's very nice to see the sun. clouds we have this morning lifting out as well. probably a couple hours earlier than scheduled. here beautiful shot to show you. looking toward san francisco bay. san francisco in the distance. temperatures, mainly in the the 40s. chilly but a nice recovery into the afternoon. here you can pick out the sat lie, radar loop. you get the idea of the trend.

current numbers from the upper 30s toward fairfield and livermore. napa to 51 in half moon bay. downtown in the upper 40s at 47. here is the forecast model showing you a decrease in the cloud cover throughout the day today. there is a weather system developing off shore. look what happens tomorrow. increasing clouds, we bring in the chance of scattered rain showers, especially by late tomorrow afternoon and in to the evening hours. we bring the chance in all day friday but a better bet. highest chance for friday evening and then that will last into saturday morning. then basically just a short term deal because the rest of the weekend remains dry with partly cloudy skies. a sierra update, mostly cloudy skies. back home today partly cloudy skies, mostly sunny and temperatures ranging the low to mid50s and a look ahead at your

five-day forecast. there is the shower chance into friday. the rest of the weekend should be dry, should be dry for new year's. good news in that. >> sounds good. people in new town connecticut have a special request. what they are asking well wishers not to do. >> pg&e crews remain busy here in brentwood working to repair a gas line that started to leak last night forcing people from their homes, how long it may be before evacuees can come back home. >> and a fight at a mall in sacramento sends shoppers running. the teens who caused all this chaos.

. happening now, the president is back in the washington dc area. you see it there. just stepped off the tarmac off air force one. air force one had been flying through the early morning from the president's vacation to get back to washington. a lot of work that the president and lawmakers have to do. he cut his vacation short to try to meet with republican lawmakers to work on the solution for avoiding the cliff. that cliff is on january 1st but the president boarding marine one now to go to the website. >> pg&e trying to fix a broken pipe that leaked gas into a neighborhood. we are live with how the problem is a effecting homeowners. >> reporter: good morning. one vacante said that there were anxious moment when is a firefighter knocked on her door and told her to get out.

i did just check with the police officer here on scene. he said that these three homes right near where this repair work is taking place remain evacuated as they worked to repair a broken gas line. workers have been able to control the gas flow out here and they are using this bypass to keep gas service going in this neighborhood. the situation started about 6:00 when neighbors called the police to report the smell of gas in this care. people were ordered to shelter in place. it took crews material hours to isolate the leak. one woman who was evacuated said she panicked when a firefighter knocked on her door. >> i opened up the door and he said got a gas leak, we are evacuating i'm like i have three dogs, what am i going to do? he said we are just worried about the humans right now. >> joy said she went to stay with her mom who lives close by

and is hoping to get back into her house this morning but won't be able to return until the line is repaired and according to ago that may take through early this afternoon. we have a call into a spokesperson and we haven't heard back just yet but hope to get further updates on when the evacuation ordero will be lifted in that neighborhood and when the repair work will be done. live in brentwood. ktvu. >> and with just got off the phone with police. they have called off annual night search for a missing teen. the 16-year-old was being taken to a youth guidance center when he jumped out of the car. the driver followed him but lost track of him . he was last seen in a black grit are you tank top. >> several businesses are the victims of vandalism and now business owners trying to put a stop to it. they are hitting up store

fronts near fruitvale avenue and school street. smashing windows, destroying decorations and stealing. their latest case happened early yesterday. the area has been the center of crimes and business owners writing city leaders to ask for more police protection. >> bail has been set at two million dollars for a woman in a fatal hit and run crash. the 23-year-old made her first court appearance yesterday. she is expected to enter a plea next week. police say she was drunk when she hit a group of people walking. a 56-year-old was killed. >> this case is a case that will be handled very aggressively. >> the family is destroyed by what happened and it's fair to say the main concern is for the family. >> the lawyer said her client has never been in trouble with the law and was studying criminal justice to be a police officer. police report drunk driving numbers were up over the

holidays compared to last december. the california highway patrol said 1, 170 people were arrested compared to 980 last year. 39 people died compared to 14 last year. police did set up a series of checkpoints in hopes of curbing drunk driving during the holidays. >> san francisco police are looking for more potential victims of three female shoplifting suspects. go head and take a look. they say on december 20th the three, you see them there, went into two stores on california street near laurel heights, they say that the woman put items into their bags and walked out of the stores, they have arrested the three on suspicious of shoplifts shoplifting. several high school buildings were damaged in vallejo. it happened late tuesday night or early wednesday morning. a campus guard found a broken junction box on a portable

classroom. the wire was also stripped. police responded to the school and found six the portable buildings were damaged. the dollar amount is still yet to be known. >> a santa cruz county man died while hiking a volcano. it's believed douglas ki rby had a f atal heart attack. he worked for a nonprofit organization and was a global expert on teen sexual health. world war ii era explosives caused a scare in a west oakland neighborhood. the bomb squad was called to the home yesterday. a man said that he wanted to turn in some old tnt from world war ii. police closed off a portion of the area and had to evacuate residents action five and a half pounds of tnt was recovered and that amount could have potentially caused a lot of damage. >> officials connecticut are asking well wishers to hold off

on sending gifts rather to the community. since the shooting at the school tens of thousands of toys, and other gifts have been going in to the community from all over the world. officials say they are deeply grateful but can't manage so many items. they say once they process everything they will let the public know the best ways to help. in response to the sandy hook shooting guns for gross groceries program was held earlier than planned. long lines of cars and people waited to turn in their guns to officials yesterday. the event was first scheduled for mayn. run they got a gift certificate to a grocery store. more than 2,000 firearms were collected and $100,000 in gift cards handed out. a new york newspaper is drawing heavy criticism for publishing the names and addresses of hand gun permit holders. they put a map showing the names and addresses of permits

permits in. a state senator is demanding the paper take it down but they have also drawn support, some parents expressing appreciation for the information. >> we are going to go back to tara watching the accident on the peninsula. >> reporter: this happened on highway 92 from the mill bray area to half moon bay. if we take a look you can see traffic is impacted. this is a serious accident. 92 westbound near skyline. it was on the chp website but its been taken off and sometime that can mean it's a fatal accident. . you can see traffic looking good in both directions and 880 traffic looking good. let's go over to mark. >> good morning. we are taking a live camera outside. a completely different story. no rain showers to track today.

lots of sun, the clouds we have been talking about since 4:30. already starting to lift and shaping up to be a nice thursday across the area. with the breaks in the raina nice look at the rainfall at least where we are for this time of the year. santa rosa picking up over 22- inches of rain. san francisco approaching 13 and san jose seven inches exactly. look at santa rosa, 174% of average. a break-in the rain for today. could be tracking a few more showers into friday. live storm tracker 2 the loop over the past few hours, the clouds really on the decrease moving out from north to the south. current numbers still in the cool side. upper 30s to the 40s. warmest in the low 40s toward half moon bay. sfo49, santa rosa 43, haywood 42 degrees. here is the overall weather set up. we had the dry weather pattern. we will take this into friday,

the next system approaches. this will be a cloud producer and we bring in shower chances by friday evening into saturday morning. the forecast model updated, showing you that. more sun this afternoon. we will take this into friday. starting out dry, maybe drizzle out there. look what happens by late friday afternoon and into the evening. we bump up the shower chances and they will linger into saturday morning, especially up into five or six but notice its heading out of town by ten. so as which result most of your weekend, good news will he dry. temperatures this afternoon mainly in the low to mid50s, break-in the rain. more sun, santa rosa 53, pacifica 52 and a look ahead. the five-day forecast, there is that shower chance into friday into saturday. for sunday we will have partly cloudy skies, dry weather pattern will take us into monday and for new year's. >> we want to update you on a story, we had told you a few minutes ago that a search for a

missing teen had been called off but now police are say that officers are in fact still search for the teen. again that 16-year-old disappeared while being transported to a youth guidance center in san francisco and police say he jumped out of the car. even though the driver followed him he lost track of him. he was last seen wearing a black glittery tank top and acid wash jeans. >> three teen was arrested for a disturbance at the mall. what shoppers saw and heard when a fight broke out. >> reporter: a wave of panic came across the mall as shoppers ran away from the chaos. >> terrifying. it was scariest moment of my life. >> reporter: police say it started when a fist fight got out of control. >> they started fighting.

>> reporter: even after police and security jumped in some of the teens kept fighting. >> the police caught three of them and then they all came here and did it again. >> reporter: that's what several people heard what they thought were gun shots. >> we all heardt. everybody was coming to seat second night. >> reporter: not everybody. most shopper was shoppers were just trying to get away. >> something similar to gun shots. we don't know if it was gun shots but it sound like that. >> reporter: police say they have ruled out any gun fire. they believe the sound of large science falling over may have led people to report shots fired. >> you start thinking the worst thing that can happen. i imagine someone with a gun or just -- someone coming to the store and threatening us. >> we hid behind the jewelry counter and then -- we need to get out of here. i'm not going to get shot. >> i immediately called my mom

and just wanted to talk to her. >> reporter: even after it was over and the mall reopened it was hard for many to catch their breath. >> just never know what could happen. >> sacramento police released these photographs of the two adults they say caused the disturbance. the 19-year-old and 18-year-old -- his name and photograph weren't released because he is a minor. >> a mailman at the center of a scandal. what is happening. >> and it was targeted by arsonists. >> walnut creek police still on the screen of an officer involved shooting. we will have the latest. [ woman ] ring. ring. progresso.

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. over the cliff and it looks like that's where we are going. the house of representatives as we speak with four days left after the day before the first year aren't here with the speaker having told them they will have -- give them 48 hours notice. i can't imagine their conscious's. >> a dire warning the senate

majority leader, democrats are wondering why the republican controlled house is still on holiday break as the nation nears closer to the fiscal cliff. about 20 minutes ago air force one touched down. the president returned to washington hoping to work out a deal. thousands of holiday travelers are stranded at airport because of a powerful storm moving through the east coast this have canceled hundreds of flights because of the storm. in the bay area dozens of flights were grounded. the. the da's office is investigating a deadly early morning shooting in walnut creak. we are at the scene where the incident happened. >> reporter: this is still a very active investigation, you can see a lot of crime scene tape. we can tell you that we have learned that multiple officers were involved in that shooting. it started a 911 call. >> we received a 911 call at

3:13, there was screaming on the line, officers were dispatched, and arrived with in minutes. we received a radio transmission at 3:19 that shots had been fired. >> reporter: at this point police aren't releasing the suspect's name. there is no word on why the officer or officers involved fired or if the suspect had a weapon. there were multiple officers on the scene and that aside from the suspect nobody else was hurt. chopper 2 was overhead earlier this morning trying to give us a better view into the apartment complex where it happened. a crime scene van moved in to the area here about an hour ago and we have heard that the district attorney's unit has been called in. that's not unusual in the cases of officer involved shootings. police say there are no suspects outstanding. we are hearing there will be another briefing later on this morningw.

rehoping to learn more and why officers felt compelled to use deadly force. we are live in walnut creek. >> a postal worker accused of stealing mail to get credit card has a court hearing. the 38-year-old faces a review conference today and a pleiomery hearing on january 7th. investigators say they recovered more than 3,000 pieces of undelivered mail at his home when he was arrested earer this months. prosecutors say they have video of him using a stolen card. he remains in jail. >> arraignment scheduled at nine for an occupy protester accused of throwing objects at police and demonstrators. from the rooftop the 34-year- old was videotapes throwing bricks and a metal pipe. he faces charges including assault with a deadly weapon and vandalism. bail was set at half a million dollars. occupiers say he should be

punished. in antioch with the help from the local community and pg&e the city park will be brought back to life. two teens destroyed it in september. several are helping raise funds to rebuild it. pg&e will present a matching grant of 12, 5hundred dollars. one of the 34 twisters that swept through the south. check out this video this is from mobile alabama on tuesday and you can see just the fury of that tornado. cars were thrown around outside this walgreens store and inside people ran for cover. the wind knocked down shelves inside. you can see everything just -- still without power, freezing temperatures and thunderstorms complicates efforts. >> former south african president is resting back at his home this morning.

he was released from the hospital but doctors are watching him. the 94-year-old spent three weeks in the hospital. he was treated for a lung infection and had gale stone surgery. hawaii has two senators gun web. the governor picked a 40-year- old to fill out the term of the late senator. he is a democrat and had been the lieutenant governor. he was one of three considered for the job. the senator died earlier this month. he had served since 1959. >> a controversial nuclear facility in southern california must pass more tests before its cleared to return online. the plant in san diego shut down near a year ago. a submission is asking operators for more analysis on whether the tubes can handle full power. southern california edson wants to run a unit.

>> this morning the labor department reported a better than expected report on the number of jobless claims, 350,000 people filed for first time unemployment benefits. that's down 12,000 from the week before. most economists had expected the number to hold steady from the week before but the decline may be because of the christmas holidays. there are more signs the economy is improving. the commerce department said that sales of new homes rose 4.4% in november. the numbers show that americans bought new homes at the fastest pace in more than two and a half years. demand for newhouses was up more than 15%. and consumer confidence has fallen because people are worried about the fiscal cliff. the conference board's index has hit the lowest level since august. the concern is over tax increased set to take effect january 1st if the white house and congress can't reach a

deal. >> amazon getting high marks, shoppers said it the site they are most satisfiedw. they have held that spot for all eight years and part of the reason is the wide variety of items it offers. >> we have details of how much tim cook gets paid. for the 2012 year he was pedestrian $4.2 million. small comparison to the 510 million of stock he has with the company. apple set him up with one million shares in 2011. he was paid a 1.4 million dollar salary, a $2.8 million bonous and $17,000 in company contributions. >> new questions involving facebook and privacy. how the scandal hits close to home. >> and a report of a serious accident in san mateo and a car into a tree.

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. new, the head of the epa just announced she is stepping down. lisa jackson has held the position for the past four years. the epa said jackson plans to leave her post after the president makes his state of the union speech next month. she said she is ready for new challenges and wants to spend more timimwith her family. >> a claim of facebook privacy

breaches involving the founder's sister. she said she posted a family photograph fortunes on facebook. a woman she said she doesn't know saw it and put it on twitter thinking was a public photograph. she lashed out at the woman and the woman said she thought it was public because it was in her news feed. it turns out the only reason she saw it is because she is friends with another sister tagged in the picture. the yacht commissioned by the late steve job social security free to sail to the united states. the designer said he was owed 4 million and the yacht was impounded. now he said he has reached a settlement. it's still in europe because bad weather is keeping it at the dock. >> a santa cruz biologist said seaports otters eat sea urchins that eat kelp, that means more

kelp, that captures more carbon dioxide. he believes if enough grows it could help cool the planet. today in san francisco more than 100 volunteers will take to the streets recording every bird that they spot. its part of the yearly christmas bird count. the volunteers will be using canoes and golf carts to cover as much area as possible throughout the day. this year's data is important this are using to predict the impact of climate change. the first part of the count took place on december 16th >> there is a serious accident in marin. we are watch that. >> reporter: west of fairfax near wood acre. a carvers a tree. the driver was ejected so it's a serious injury accident. we have an injury between half moon bay and san mateo.

you can see chopper 2 flew in to the area. the scene has been cleared but traffic has been impacted in both directions, the chp said you can expect delaces of up to 24 minutes. this is a look at the bridge. you can see traffic flowing well in both directions and at the golden gate bridge. a nice drive into san francisco. there you go. look how sunny it is. i think that's what we were waiting for all day. the sun? >> that's right. we startedo out with cloud cow. today is the break day with partly to mostly sunny skies, temperatures in the 50s. chance of a few showers. for friday. most weekend appears to be dry especially by saturday afternoon and into sun and getting the requests for the new year's forecast. that should be dry as well with just partly cloudy skies, looking good. get out and enjoy the sun. >> we need that sun. >> that's the report for this

morning. thank you for trusting us. we will see you the next time news breaks. >> be sure to join the news at noon for more. thank you for joining us this morning. have a great thursday everybody.